A long time ago, but not so far away…

Snowboarding games were not in short supply in the late nineties and early noughts, with every major platform hosting at least one and sometimes multiple snowboarding games…

Mario is a notoriously versatile character, having his video game life as a carpenter in Donkey Kong, he is most well known for being a plumber in the mainline Mario Bros games. Beyond his usual occupation, he had taken up Golf in the NES and Game Boy game Golf, and swung a racquet in the Virtual Boy’s Mario Tennis. In 1998 he tried his hand at yet another gameplay formula and launched a wildly successful spin-off series with Mario Party…

The scene was set for the next generation of consoles, with a new competitor entering the world of video game hardware for the first time. 1998 was a mix of established platforms alongside brand new ones, a mix of optimising old hardware and of experimenting with new potential.